Contivo Introduces First Vocabulary Management Solution Designed for Industry-Specific Application Integration.

Business Editors/High-Tech Writers

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 2003

Scalable Solutions Provide Widest Platform Support Available,

Reducing Time and Cost of Application Integration Projects

Contivo(R), Inc., the leading provider of automated data integration, today announced the availability of Contivo Vocabulary Management Solutions specifically designed for application implementation and integration within High Tech Manufacturing, Petroleum and Chemical industries.

Enterprises gain the benefits of faster and more cost-effective implementations using the packaged solution sets which combine Contivo's award winning data modeling and integration technology with pre-built vocabularies, models and formats.

The Contivo Vocabulary Management Solution(TM) provides companies with platform-independent tools to achieve immediate results on application implementation and integration projects. The advantages of rapid implementation include substantial cost savings on services, averaging a 40 percent reduction on the time spent on the laborious task of data mapping and transformation. Customer payback can be achieved within 90 days.

"Contivo's Vocabulary Management Solutions help companies move quickly along the path of more cost-effective application implementation and integration projects. Our pre-built solutions and data models focusing on industry specific applications and standards allow customers to eliminate up to 60 percent of the modeling needed to implement a vocabulary-based integration approach," said Larry Lenhart, president and CEO of Contivo. "Customers from high technology to oil and gas and paper industries including Agilent, Hitachi America, HP, ForestExpress and Trade-Ranger have obtained significant results using Contivo's technology."

According to the recent Gartner Strategic Analysis, Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware 2003, "Vocabulary-based semantic transformation may eventually reduce the development time needed to implement the majority of application integration scenarios. Business processes that require integration of systems with disparate data models will be implemented at lower cost and without as much custom coding."(1)

Components of the Contivo Vocabulary Management Solution Sets include:

Purpose-built vocabulary -- Contivo provides a pre-built vocabulary developed and optimized for specific industries. The vocabularies tie together the data with specific business processes enabling application, legacy and trading partner information to be described and related together in a common business vocabulary. This eliminates a major stumbling block in implementing a vocabulary management solution, namely the creation of a business vocabulary that is known to solve the specific business problem.

Pre-configured data models and formats -- Using the pre-defined vocabulary, Contivo provides a suite of data models and formats, which cover a specific business process. For example, an Order to Cash process for high tech manufacturing includes data models and business document formats already modeled to the vocabulary for SAP, OAGi, EDI and RosettaNet.

Contivo Repository -- The Contivo Repository provides central storage and management of the business vocabulary, the data and document models and the resulting data integration designs. The Contivo Repository enables the collaboration, sharing and resource management for business and applications analysts and the implementation team needed to successfully complete the project. The Contivo Repository provides version control, access control, check-in/check-out functionality and audit information to ensure that the right people are working with the latest information.

Contivo Analyst -- The Contivo Analyst provide the user tools to customize the vocabulary, data models and maps to meet the unique needs of the end user. The Contivo Analyst also provides the automated mapping environment that is driven by the business vocabulary and data models stored in the Contivo Repository. Once a data map or transform has been completed, the Contivo Analyst generates the runtime code for the specific middleware or integration runtime. Contivo code generators support TIBCO, webMethods, IBM WebSphere, BEA WebLogic, Microsoft BizTalk, SAP NetWeaver, PeopleSoft AppConnect, Fujitsu Interstage, SeeBeyond, Java/J2EE platforms and XML/XSLT middleware.

Pricing and Availability

Contivo Vocabulary Management Solutions Sets are available immediately with pricing starting at $75,000. Please contact Contivo sales at 650-426-4000 or by email at [e-mail] for more information.

About Contivo

Contivo provides solutions that enable enterprises to quickly and dramatically reduce the implementation and maintenance time, costs and complexity of their application integration projects. Contivo's customers have experienced 40 percent reductions in implementation costs and have seen investment paybacks in less than 90 days. Customers and partners achieve these significant savings by utilizing Contivo's integration metadata modeling tools and repository bringing reuse, automation, and collaboration to a previously hand-coded task. Contivo's products work with existing integration and middleware technologies, including emerging Web services technologies, providing our customers and partners with the ideal platform to enable an Integration Competency Center (ICC) or Integration Center of Excellence (COE). Founded in 1998, Contivo's enterprise customers include Agilent Technologies, Hitachi America, HP and Viacore. Contivo's partners include Actional, BEA Systems, Commerce One, Fujitsu, Grand Central Communications, TIBCO Software and webMethods. Contivo is privately held and headquartered in Mountain View, California. More information about the company can be found at http://www.contivo.com/

(1) "Hype Cycle for Application Integration and Platform Middleware", Strategic Analysis Report published on May 30, 2003 by D. McCoy, M. Pezzini, Y. Natis, R. Schulte, J. Thompson, B. Lheureux, J. Sinur, F. Kenney.